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Chickahominy Reservoir is located near U.S. Highway 20 100 miles (160.9 km) east of Bend, Oregon, and 32 miles (51.5 km) west of Burns, Oregon, in the United States. It was built as an irrigation reservoir, but is now managed by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife as a recreational fishery. The reservoir is very long and is narrow at points ...
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The Chickahominy is an 87-mile-long (140 km) [1] river in eastern Virginia. The river, which serves as the eastern border of Charles City County , rises about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Richmond and flows southeast and south to the James River .
The Barrett's Ferry Bridge, officially known as the Judith Stewart Dresser Bridge, is a fixed-span bridge which carries State Route 5 across the Chickahominy River between Charles City County and James City County in eastern Virginia. It connects popular tourism destinations of the James River Plantations with Colonial Williamsburg and ...
The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
The creek meanders through a broad alluvial plain [7] and turns southeast near Chickahominy Reservoir, traveling through the unincorporated community of Riley, where it is crossed by Highway 20 and Highway 395, respectively. [6] Past Riley Silver Creek flows through a canyon with 200-to-300-foot (60 to 90 m) tall walls made of volcanic basalt. [7]
The upper reservoir is formed on Rocky Mountain above the lower reservoir by a 120-foot (37 m) tall and 12,895-foot (3,930 m) long continuous earth and rock-fill dam. It can store up to 10,650 acre-feet (13,140,000 m 3) of water and its surface area covers 221 acres (89 ha). The upper reservoir lies at an elevation of 1,392 feet (424 m) while ...
Historic ferries operated on rivers around Atlanta, Georgia area, and became namesakes for numerous current-day roads in north Georgia. Most of the ferries date to the early years of European-American settlement in the 1820s and 1830s, when parts of the region were still occupied by cherokee and other Native American communities.